﻿Maybe they gave him a copy without the boot screen so he wouldn't leak it early or something.

Several reasons:

Limited to 16 colors (there are hacks, but they're unreliable and can fry CRT monitors (as I experienced)), and Vista is all about the future, not much point spoiling the Windows "experience" by shoving a 16-color Windows Vista logo in people's faces

I heard Vista now Hibernates instead of Shutting down by default, so you'd only see this screen for 2...3 seconds tops

If you don't like it, you can always add /noguiboot /sos for Linux-esque geekery

Yeah high res boot screens do break some cards, I think they use VESA to do it before drivers are loaded? Considering VESA's total lack of use now adays, I wouldn't be surprised if its not implemented properly on certain modern cards.

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